A senior military official of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed that Iran has increased the range of its land-to-sea ballistic missile to 700 km (435 miles), as tension raised between Washington and Tehran over new sanctions.
“We have managed to make land-to-sea ballistic, not cruise, missiles that can hit any vessel or ship from 700 kilometers,” Fars news reported, quoting Amirali Hajjizadeh, head of revolutionary Guards’ airspace division.
In less than a month, US will implement a new round of sanctions against the Islamic Republic, aimed at reducing Iranian oil sales to zero level. Iran has been already facing sharp inflation and cruel financial crisis in the past few months.
IRGC frequently threatened to disturb oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz if Washington tries to stop Iran’s oil exports.
The Guards had two recent missile attacks on Iranian Kurdish parties in Iraq and a separate failed missile attack in Syria against unknown groups that Iran calls them “the proxies of Saudi Arabia and Israel.”
